On Sep 15, 2010, at 4:41 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote:
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From: David Lutterkort <lut...@redhat.com>
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Sent: Wed, September 15, 2010 7:33:45 PM
Subject: Re: Accepting patches in a podling
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 04:22 +0200, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
FWIW, what Subversion uses:
http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/community-guide.html#patches
http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/community-guide.html#patch-manager
;
Briefly, all patches go to dev@, and only the unlucky patches that
were neither applied nor rejected get stashed in the issue tracker
to avoid being dropped on the floor.
This seems a very workable approach - going through Jira for
everything
is too much work on the part of the contributer. I'll use that as
the
submission policy for Deltacloud from now on:
* Patch submittes must have a CLA on file
Well IMO this should only be a requirement for "substantial" changes.
Minor bugfixes and such aren't even copyrightable, so just take them
if they're posted to the list without disclaimers. If you use
reasonable
judgement about minor changes, you don't need to burden an occasional
contributor with any paperwork- the license ensures your actions are
defensible.
I'm mystified about what license you are talking about. This
particular item proposes that patches posted to dev@ are ok if
submitted by someone who has a CLA on file. You say you don't need to
burden an occasional contributor with any paperwork.
So what license are you talking about? The CLA that the contributor
didn't file?
Craig
* Patches need to go to the dev@ list (and be ACK'd there)
* In some cases, we might ask the submitter to put the patch
into
Jira (e.g., for large contributions)
Only tangentially related: is there a way to make subversion
(especially
via git-svn) distinguish between a committer and an author ? That
would
help keep the patch submission trail much more transparent.
With cvs we used to have a way of formatting log messages to indicate
independent authorship. Unfortunately there is no such thing
available
with subversion, so you can be a bit creative in how you denote
authorship
in the log message.
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